Here’s a quick tip on how to connect a Focusrite USB audio interface to an iPad or iPhone. This allows you to easily connect microphones and instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards to your iOS device to record and create songs using various music-making apps. For some odd reason Focusrite’s USB audio interfaces don’t […]

Focusrite recently released updated Windows drivers for their line of Scarlett audio interfaces. The new USB driver version is 4.36.4. The previous public release was back in December with version 4.15. The updated driver is available for 2nd gen Scarlett interfaces from the downloads section of Focusrite’s website. They also have the same driver posted […]

Yesterday Focusrite issued another update for the Windows drivers on their 2nd gen Scarlett USB audio interfaces. This is like the fifth or sixth update since the new interfaces were released in June, so at least Focusrite’s developers are dedicated to improving things. The new driver version is 4.15. More specifically it’s 4.15.0.172. This is […]

Yesterday Focusrite posted new updated Windows drivers for their 2nd gen Scarlett audio interfaces. The new driver version is 4.14, more specifically 4.14.0.158. The previous version was 4.12 so I guess they’re skipping 4.13 altogether. The 4.14 driver claims to remedy two problems. Focusrite says they’ve fixed an issue that causes distorted audio when streaming […]

If you have a 2nd gen Scarlett audio interface, Focusrite posted new updated Windows drivers for them a couple of days ago on their website (still no word on 1st gen updates, unfortunately). The new driver version is listed as 4.12.0. More specifically the new driver version on my PC is 4.12.0.141. The 4.12 update […]

I’ve been keeping an eye on the downloads section at Focusrite to see if there are any updates for the 2nd gen Scarlett interfaces to fix the Windows drivers issues. Unfortunately there’s no new update yet but I did notice an option to download a new Scarlett 2nd gen updater app, which is weird because […]

For this review I’m going to be comparing the Audient iD4 against the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and 2i4. All three are bus-powered USB audio interfaces that share a lot of similar features. The price is the same for the iD4 and 2i4, both sell for $199, and the 2i2 is $50 less. Last month I […]

Below is a list comparing the overall latency numbers between the Audient iD4 and the 1st and 2nd generation Focusrite Scarlett interfaces on a Windows 7 computer. Over the past couple of months Focusrite and Audient have both released new USB audio interfaces. Audient released the iD4 and Focusrite released 2nd generation Scarlett interfaces, which […]